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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Centennial Contributions (search)
one thing and speaks another; or this exclamation of old Laertes in the last book of the Odyssey: What a day is this when I see my son and grandson contending in excellence! It seems a long way from Dante to Emerson, and yet there are Dantean passages in Woodnotes and Voluntaries. They are not in Dante's matchless measure, but they have much of his grace, and more of his inflexible will. This warning against mercenary marriages might be compared to Dante's answer to the embezzling Pope Nicholas III. in Canto XIX. of the Inferno: He shall be happy in his love, Like to like shall joyful prove; He shall be happy whilst he woos, Muse-born, a daughter of the Muse. But if with gold she bind her hair, And deck her breast with diamond, Take off thine eyes, thy heart forbear, Though thou lie alone on the ground. The robe of silk in which she shines, It was woven of many sins; And the shreds Which she sheds In the wearing of the same, Shall be grief on grief, And shame on shame.